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fey

fey \FAY\, adjective:

  1. Possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; magical or fairylike; elfin.
  2. Having power to see into the future; visionary; clairvoyant.
  3. Appearing slightly crazy, as if under a spell; touched.
  4. (Scots.) Fated to die; doomed.
  5. (Scots.) Marked by a sense of approaching death.

Middle English - feie, fated to die, from Old English - fæge
...and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him.

'Éowyn, Éowyn!' he cried at last. 'Éowyn, how come you here? what madness or devilry is this? Death, death, death! Death take us all!'

The Return of the King: The Battle of the Pelennor Fields

I thing that Éomer has covered all the above defintions of fey


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